The adventures of Tom Sawyer

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TOM'S WONDERFUL DREAM. 151
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And so it was ! Well, goodness gracious ! Go on, Tom !
"And then you began to cry."
" So I did. So I did. Not the first time, neither. And — then
"Then Mrs. Harper she began to cry, and said Joe was just the same and she
wished she hadn't wliipped him for taking cream when she'd throwed it out her
own self— "
" Tom ! The
was doing ! Land
sperrit was upon you ! You
alive, go on, Tom !
"Then Sid he said—he said— "
"I don't think I said anything," said Sid.
" Yes you did, Sid," said Mary.
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was a prophecying— that's what you
"Shut your heads and let Tom go on ! "What did he say, Tom.? "
" He said— I think he said he hoped I was better off where I was gone to, but if
I'd been better sometimes— "
" There, d'you hear that ! It was his very words !
" And you shut him up sharp."
"I lay I did! There must a been an angel there. There was an angel there,
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somewheres !
"And Mrs. Harper told about Joe scaring her with a fire-cracker, and you told
about Peter and the Pain-killer— "
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" Just as true as I live !
" And then there was a whole lot of talk 'bout dragging the river for us, and
'bout having the funeral Sunday, and then you and old Miss Harper hugged and
cried, and she went."
" It happened just so ? It happened just so, as sure as I'm a sitting in these
very tracks. Tom you couldn't told it more like, if you'd a seen it ! And
what
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on, Tom ?
then
" Then I thought you prayed for me—and I could see you and hear every word
you said. And you went to bed, and I was so sorry, that I took and wrote on a
piece of sycamore bark, ' We ain't dead— 7ve are only off beingpirates,' and put it
on the table by the candle ;
and then you looked so good, laying there asleep, that
I thought I went and leaned over and kissed you on the lips."